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From: vances@xenitec.xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley)
Subject: Reading audio format CDs?
Organization: Telco Consulting
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:21:19 GMT
Message-ID: <Dp5HzL.24M@xenitec.on.ca>
Summary: how to?
Sender: news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator)
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Is there any way to read music CD tracks directly?  I can play
them and record them with my sound card but the quality seems
poor.  I would really like to be able to just transfer tracks to
disk and then play them back.  I know it would take incredible
amounts of disk but ultimately transfering all my CDs to disk would
be ideal.

I looked at the source and also SCSI debug when I try and mount an
audio CD.  There is an error message which is in scsi/scsi_sense.c
which says "Illegal mode for this track".  Does this mean that it
is the CD player it's self which is refusing the operation?  Does this
mean that the CD player will be the limiting factor in achieving this
functionality?

Any help would be appreciated.

	-Vance

-- 
Vance Shipley, vances@xenitec.on.ca